thawan

I have been to Tracy Arm Twice, mid May, did not make it in either time. I have never been to GB, but from what I've read and pictures, I'd pick the GB.

I'm just reading these older post because we are taking our first cruise in Feb 07 (NCL Sun out of New Orleans).

 

The tips are added to our account and will have to be paid by credit card at the end of the cruise. My question is pre-paying $10/person/day for our group will be $280 for 7 days. I don't think that is too much to ask for the service we will receive, but if we were not required to pre-pay, I don't think I would tip $40 on any given day.

 

We don't plan on getting many room service orders and if the room stewart gets tips everytime we see him, how much can that be a day?

 

My sons are teenagers and won't be expected to tip (just the parents right?)

 

I'm just worried that with the $280 already added to the bill, we might feel bad about not tipping when we should, which would end up costing another couple hundred dollars that we didn't plan on. Double tipping seems excessive. I might feel different once the cruise is over, but the reason this is our first cruise was financial.

 

Thanks for listening to be run on.........

 

Les:o

We went on our first cruise last May to Alaska on NCL's Wind. On the Tue. we got a print out that showed $10pp/per day. I had to explain to dh that those were the tips. He had not paid attention when I explained before we left.

The look I got was "more money out the window" On Friday we got another print out and the question I got "Can we give more, all the staff have been sooo great" We ended up giving the room stewards extra. Tho with dh's reaction to our first towel animal,(Tue) they would have gotten extra even if they had never come in the cabin again :D

With NCL if you leave the auto on, you have 'tipped' everyone you should. If you feel your room steward have given you exceptional service you can give more at the end of the cruise, if not, don't. You should NOT feel that you need to tip more. Except $1 or $2 for room service.

Personaly I like the auto tipping, cause they look after it and I don't have to. And if NCL had prepaid tipping I would go for it.

BTW from what I've read that staff apprieciate (spell?) exceptional reviews as much as extra tips